Pindrop Press is a boutique poetry press based in Kent, England. If you would like to purchase a copy of any of our books, please visit the author’s pages.

2011, our first year in business, was a real success. Our inaugural title, The Suitable Girl, by South African poet Michelle McGrane, launched in January and was followed by Pepek the Assassin from Joyce Ellen Davis, Dale Favier’s Opening the World ,To Know Bedrock by Sharon Black and Snow Child — a follow-up to Forward Prize Best First Collection shortlisted How to Pour Madness into a Teacup by Abegail Morley.

And we are delighted to announce that the first book of 2012 is now available: Sarah Salway’s fabulous first collection You Do Not Need Another Self-Help Book. Sarah is the new Canterbury Laureate, Royal Literature Fund Fellow at the London School of Economics and an acclaimed novelist. Her prize-winning poetry has been widely published. Visit her page to read a sample poem and see what people have been saying about this extraordinary book.

Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an exciting new voice in British poetry. She is only 21 and already has a pamphlet to her name and in March 2012 Pindrop brought out her first full collection, Last March — a project commissioned by the Scott Polar Research Institute to mark the centenary of Scott’s final expedition.

In May, Cherry Smyth’s outstanding collection Test, Orange will launch at Large Glass on the Caledonian Road. This is a real coup as Cherry is one of my favourite poets and a very fine writer.

In June, Things that are Silent by Rethabile Masilo will launch. Rethabile is a poet from Lesotho who is currently based in Paris. His work has appeared in a variety of magazines and online and he is the editor of Canopic Jar and blogs at Poefrika.

Another signing: Graham Burchell! Graham’s collection The Chongololo Club, based on his time spent teaching in Zambia, will be published in July 2012 and is a wonderful follow-up to Vermeer’s Corner. We’re very pleased that’s he’s joining Pindrop.

Emer Gillespie has also come on board. Emer’s first collection The Invisible Eye will be published in October 2012 and we are thrilled to have signed her as she is a talented novelist, scriptwriter and poet!

And we are very pleased to have signed poet Alicia Stubbersfield. Her fourth collection, The Yellow Table, will be published in November. Alicia is one of the judges for the 2012 Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and also co-judges the writing section of The Koestler Trust Arts in Prison prizes for the northern region. She lectures in Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University. Please visit her page to read more.

If you have a manuscript you’d like us to consider, please see our submissions page.

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